{"id":142479,"date":"2019-08-10T05:49:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T04:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=142479"},"modified":"2019-08-10T05:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T04:50:16","slug":"dont-rubbish-our-democracy-shehu-sani-warns-buhari-over-sowore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=142479","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t rubbish our democracy, Shehu Sani warns Buhari over Sowore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Shehu-Sani-Condemns-Attacks-On-Protesters.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Senator Shehu Sani has warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to rubbish Nigeria&#8217;s democracy with his dictatorial tendencies towards those opposed to his leadership style.<\/p>\n<p>The senator described the action of the government towards peaceful protests as worrisome, adding that protests were a fundamental right guaranteed by the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Sani disclosed this in Abuja at the International World&#8217;s Indigenous Peoples Day organised by the Coalition of FCT Indigenous Association.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;My own submission to the President is that he should never allow himself, no matter the provocation or temptation, to leave behind a legacy of intolerance, disrespect to rule of law and disrespect for court orders. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we have a government that only respects court orders that favours them, then we are undermining the values and structures of democracy itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The human rights activist further said that the President Buhari-led government was a product and beneficiary of protests.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Justice is the bridge, we must be fair and just to all Nigerians because that is the foundation upon which everyone can live in peace and harmony.&#8221;\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Shehu Sani has warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to rubbish Nigeria&#8217;s democracy with his dictatorial tendencies towards those opposed to his leadership style. The senator described the action of the government towards peaceful protests as worrisome, adding that protests were a fundamental right guaranteed by the constitution. Sani disclosed this in Abuja at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[41,12902,10197,4877],"class_list":["post-142479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-buhari","tag-revolution-now-protest","tag-senator-shehu-sani","tag-sowore"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}